we'll look out the window to see if it's raining, or still wait anxiously

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On Living II

Let’s say we are seriously ill, need surgery -
which is to say we might not get up
from the white table.
Even though it’s impossible not to feel sad
about going a little too soon,
we’ll still laugh at the jokes being told,
we’ll look out the window to see if it’s raining,
or still wait anxiously

Let’s say we are at the front -
for something worth fighting for, say.
There, in the first offensive, on that very day,

We’ll know this with a curious anger,
but we’ll still worry ourselves to death
about the outcome of the war, which could last years.

Let’s say we’re in prison
and close to fifty,
and we have eighteen more years, say,
before the iron doors will open.
we might fall on our face, dead.
for the latest newscast.
I mean with the outside beyond the walls.

I mean, however and whereever we are,
we must live as if we will never die…

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